ISLAMABAD: PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif on Friday said he was confident that the high treason case against Pervez Musharraf would reach its logical end. “Not just Musharraf but everybody will be held accountable whatever he did as the time and circumstances are much different from the past. Musharraf is an absconder but he must have come Pakistan and face the courts,” said the former prime minister told reporters inside accountability court. Earlier, when Nawaz was asked to comment on dissolution of the special court in the high treason case he said, “Iss tarah tou hota hai…iss tarah kay kamon mein” [such things happen in these matters]. To a question that Chief Justice Saqib Nisar has clarified that he didn’t used words like faryadi [complainant] for Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, the three-time prime minister said if the chief justice had used those words, he should have stood by that.
“Such words are not in accordance with his stature and any other person too should not use these words,” he added.
While the informal chit chat was going on between Nawaz and reporters, Wajid Zia arrived with his iron trunks, to which the ousted prime minister in a lighter vein said, “From where come these trunks?” and then shared another verse, “Samaan Sou Baras Ka…Pal Ki Khabar Nahi” [carrying luggage for hundred years but doesn’t know what will happen next].
To a question about the imminent decision in Sheikh Rashid’s disqualification case, Nawaz said he did not want to comment about that, but added, “Sheikh Rashid will always be Sheikh Rashid.”
During the chat, he once again avoided questions about Chaudhry Nisar despite the insistence shown by the reporters.
Meanwhile, defence counsel Khawaja Haris, talking to Nawaz, said the trailer of Thursday’s proceedings would “now come to the silver screen”, to which he said, “Today is Friday. Is there a new film going to be launched today? Haris replied that he was talking about the statement of Wajid.
When asked if he feels there is nothing in these cases then why he does not ask his sons to come and face the same so that they may also be cleared of the charges, Nawaz said Hussain Nawaz and Hassan Nawaz never remained prime minister, minister or held any public office. “Whereas these cases pertain to the time when I was a school-going child,” he added.
He said the NAB had failed to establish any corruption case. “They are talking about the assets but if they have levelled charges of corruption against me they should have proved these,” he said.
Nawaz once again passed sarcastic remarks about the PPP and said, “If they have to convict me at every cost, convict me in Haj corruption, EOBI, NICL, Rental Power, Ursus, [and] SGS-Cotecna [cases]. It is the only case which is not about corruption and revolves around our family business.”
Maryam Nawaz intruded and said, “We already provided money trail to the Supreme Court. The statement of Robert William Radley was also in our favour.” She said when they couldn’t find anything in the main corruption reference, they filed supplementary references. At this, Nawaz said the NAB star witness Wajid Zia had rebutted all his allegations himself.
